Can I join in on anecdote time? Here's mine:

And Now I will paraphrase Paul Mooney.

You can think that all you want; it's not true so it doesn't matter. If the athlete was the "prize," the women would be doing the "snagging." The winner snags a prize, the prize itself is snagged. This is pretty basic subject/object stuff.

And Roethlisburger can drag a drunk girl into a bathroom and go onto the Superbowl. Mettenberger can get kicked off the UGA for sexual misconduct, and get picked up to QB LSU the next season. Even if only a crazy person would hear "be a football player and girls will throw themselves at you" and turn it into "be a…

Your phrasing and rationale doesn't make the concept any less gross.

This:

I love how your take away from this well written post is, "won't someone think of the WHITE PEOPLE?!?!"

People are very into this idea that if they didn't mean for the racist thing they did to be racist, that ameliorates it. I'm not sure why.

I was one of two black students at my boarding school, and at the weekends when we were put in groups to go into town, there would be a mad scramble to be in my group. My fellow students had cottoned on to the fact that my presence had an interesting effect on shopkeepers. My job would be to stand anywhere in the shop…

Look on the bright side. At least they're not skorts?

I feel like stripping the entirety of someone's lower body in one piece is actually a pretty amazing skill.... THAT NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE A USE FOR.

God, people were SO racist back then. I'm sure these are "nude" pants. Couldn't they make them in a wider range of skin tones?

" It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."

Exactly! When I was a teenager, I bought a car. I bought a laptop. When the laptop broke a few years later and I was in my early 20s and still in college, I bought another laptop. If I liked a couple songs, I bought the album. If I really liked the album, I bought it on vinyl as well as CD. I bought several…

black women —women of color period—-experience racism which is often paired with misogyny. not just men of color.

Except, no, I'm sorry, but I'm not buying it. I work at a suburban high school. There are kids in here with bags, clothes, cars and jewelry that I could only dream about. I myself, got pulled over in my college graduation present (a beautiful, 8 year old Acura TL) and questioned about how I could afford a car like…

I think the brilliant essay Of Dogs and Lizards: A Parable of Privilege, is a wonderful illustration of the way privilege, while not the same thing as intentional oppression, is inextricably intertwined with it. For the most part, people with privilege don't go around cackling evilly and thinking up good ways to…

I'm black and I love it. Even with all the Shopping While Black and Eating By Black and Driving While Black and Internet Dating While Black, which have become shady experiences. I am sure that some non blacks would not want to be black because the racism would blow their minds, but being black is not overwhelmingly a…

I would never presume to say I have any idea what it's like to be black in America. However, there does seem to be a tipping point for white people where the veil is lifted from their eyes and suddenly you see the racism, and oh my lord it is everywhere. I wish there were some sort of vaccine we could give people that…

Sitting back for all the posts decrying a person spending $2500 on a bag and not this classic example of racial profiling.